FOG is a free, open source computer cloning solution. I helped my friend a technology director at a school to deploy FOG. He's a one man shop and needs all the help he can get.

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The school has approximately 500 computers. Running everything from Windows XP to Windows 8.1. He was in need of a server to help with imaging, pushing programs, printer setup and more. I introduced him to the FOG Project http://www.fogproject.org/. We setup Ubuntu 14.04 server with 6 TB of storage, six 2 TB drives in a RAID 10 array. We installed this onto a older server that had a Dual Core Xeon 2.0Ghz processor and 4GB of RAM. To setup FOG we did the following steps.

Went through the setup options and FOG installed without a problem. We were using his existing DHCP server so we configured it to point to the FOG server for the PXE boot. Tested a few machines and they uploaded images fine and re-imaged the machines too.

We then went ahead and configured the FOG server to also do the following rolls:
1. Print Server
2. Green FOG: It powers off the student computers to save energy.
3. Snapin Deployment: A snapin is a script that runs on a local machine that allows you to install programs from a samba share on the FOG server. So we setup his Office 2010 to install along with a lot of other programs. This allowed him to create a really small base image for the machines.
4. Hostname Changer: The Hostname of a computer is tied to the MAC address so if a student would change the hostname FOG would detect it and correct the hostname back to what it should be.

These rolls are all managed by the FOG client that sits on the Windows machine and checks back in with the FOG server to see if there is anything it should do.

This has saved him a lot of time and effort. The server has work efficiently.